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Definition of Physiocrat

Physiocrat
Physiocrat Phys"i*o*crat, n. [Gr. fy`sis nature + ? to rule.] One of the followers of Quesnay of France, who, in the 18th century, founded a system of political economy based upon the supremacy of natural order. --F. A. Walker. -- Phys`i*o*crat"ic, a.

Meaning of Physiocrat from wikipedia

- with the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations in 1776. The physiocrats made a significant contribution in their emphasis on productive work...
- Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism...
- Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2], 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States...
- perspective. Two groups, who later were called "mercantilists" and "physiocrats", more directly influenced the subsequent development of the subject...
- to the pen, of Quesnay, the founder of the economical school of the physiocrats, but was really written before the marquis had made the acquaintance...
- rule that the early advocates of laissez-faire always emphasized. The Physiocrats were early advocates of laissez-faire and advocated for a impôt unique...
- the report, Hamilton quoted from Wealth of Nations and used the French physiocrats as an example for rejecting agrarianism and the physiocratic theory,...
- policies, in forming the French agrarian philosophy of physiocracy. The physiocrats, along with the ideas of John Locke and the Romantic Era, formed the...
- of natural law to political systems advocating intrinsic rights; the physiocrats and Adam Smith applied natural conceptions of psychology and self-interest...
- lived in Oranienburg between 1911 and 1915, publishing his magazine, Der Physiocrat. He returned to the town in 1927 and lived there until his death in 1930...